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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Sam Panico I am in love with film. It inspires me every single day. And so does rock and roll. I have a few rock and roll rules that rule my life and I'll share one with you: if you don't like The Ramones, I really don't trust you.Sure, you can tell me every Ramones song sounds the same. And I'll tell you that you're an asshole - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg sounds nothing like Pet Sematary and those two songs sound nothing like Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue. The Ramones got me through my first year of advertising, keeping my sanity as I worked eighty hours a week and I will forever be in their debt.This movie makes me insanely happy because it posits a world where The Ramones are the biggest band in the world, big enough to cause a major stir when they come to town. Roger Corman originally wanted Cheap Trick or Todd Rundgren for this, but come on. Only one band could make this work.The students of Vince Lombardi High School are as good at driving educators insane as they are bad at actually learning. Foremost among their number is rock and roller Riff Randell (has P.J Soles ever been lovelier?) who dreams of writing songs for the Ramones and meeting Joey Ramone.When new Principal Togar (has Mary Woronov ever not been great in a film?) takes her ticket to the concert away from her, she and her best friend Kate have to figure out how they'll get to meet their heroes, win true love and escape the drudgery of high school.There's a moment here where Riff imagines Joey in her bedroom singing "I Want You Around" to her. It breaks my heart in the best of ways - pure teen worry and angst and then there's Joey - geeky, gangly, goofball Joey - the hero who comes to her room and there's this pure puppy love bliss. No other band could have been in this film and communicated punk rock swagger and danger while still having this tender sweetness.I love PJ's clothes in this film. That may be because the low budget of the film meant that they couldn't afford decent clothes for her, so she spent her entire salary on her outfits.Between Don Steele, Clint Howard, Dick Miller and Paul Bartel, the only members of my favorite actors club not in this film are weirdo Italian gore icons like John Saxon, Ivan Rassimov and George Eastman to make it perfect. Screw that - this is perfect. The end of the film, where Miss Togar snarls at Joey, "Do your parents know you're Ramones?" makes me get up and cheer out loud.Talk about punk rock - The Ramones were only paid a total of $25,000 for acting in this, so they had to play shows every night to make up for it. Meanwhile, Dee Dee fought a roadie, OD'd in jail and woke up in the ER with a $3,000 medical bill. But that's OK - Dee Dee was such a bad actor in this that he only got two lines: "Hey, pizza!" and "Hey, pizza! It's great! Let's dig in!"There's also a giant mouse and mouse children that somehow go to this school for some reason. Who cares!I love the end of this movie, when the school violently explodes as The Ramones rock out and Screamin' Steve Stevens goes wild. It's absolutely, totally perfect - and makes me wish that in my teen years, when no one in my high school knew or cared who The Ramones were, that Dee Dee would come and get me so high I'd wake up in the emergency room with one awesome story. Gabba gabba hey, indeed.

UofSciFi I liked this movie I remember there was one very well done scene in this movie where Riff Randell (played by P.J. Soles) is lying in her bed smoking pot and then she begins to visualize that the Ramones are in the room with her sing the song "I Want You Around" ...very very cool stuff.It was fun, energetic, quirky and cool. Yes I'll admit that the ending is way-way over the top and far fetched ...but it doesn't matter because it is fun this is a very fun movie. It's Sex, Pot and Rock n Rocll foreverI read that Cheap Trick was the band who was originally to star in this ..But I do not know if this is true or not

curiousjasmine This movie was funny but funny in the absurd way. I liked it a little but I wasn't exactly in love with it. I do think it was very original and slightly plausible at times yet it didn't have so much zing to it that I had ejected protracted laughter or anything like that. I don't exactly know what I was expecting when I picked this up but I do believe that the singing was decent yet not up to par with what you would expect to trigger the whole sequence of events that followed. Typical High School drama I guess. It reached in my opinion and became farcical. It played up on gender and body image stereotypes as well. I actually was under the impression that this film was a tribute to the classics as opposed to legitimately older even though I was aware of it beforehand because it just didn't have that indelible classic vibe going.

Python Hyena Rock N' Roll High School (1979): Dir: Allan Arkush / Cast: P. J. Soles, Mary Woronov, Vince Van Patten, Dey Young, Clint Howard: Explosive musical comedy about the rebellious reputation that often separates rock music from authority. Miss Evelyn Togar is the new principal at Vince Lombardi High and she aims to eliminate rock music from the minds of the student body. Riff Randell is the rebellious Ramones fan who skips class to get concert tickets for the entire school. Her best friend is science major Kate Rambeau who has her sights set on naïve football jock Tom Roberts but he hopes to hook up with Randell. He enlists help from Eaglebauer, whose office is set up in the boys washroom where he serve up whatever deviant nature students desire. This all climaxes when the actual Ramones makes a comedic showcase that includes an electrifying concert and join a standoff when the students take over the school and blowing up Vince Lombardi High. This calls to question the moral dilemma of the rebellion but the Ramones make for an amusing presence. Directed with energy by Allan Arkush with P.J. Soles fetching as high spirited Randell, Mary Woronov as the domineering Togar, Vince Van Patten as naïve Tom, Dey Young as the smart yet equally naïve Kate, and Clint Howard as the witty and innovative as Eaglebauer. Fun musical full of great comic lines where the lessons taught are not in the classroom. Score: 8 / 10